Special Collections Resouces for Music
Manuscript Collections
- 114. W. Amos Abrams Papers
- 286. Ballads, Poems, and Folklore: History of Yadkin County
- 405. Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame Collection of Papers, 2008
- 214. Camp Catawba - Vera Lachmann Papers, 1944 - 2004, undated
- 333. Boyden Carpenter Photographs
- 108. James Farmer Collette Recordings
- 309. Country Ham Photograph
- 421. Mike Craver Interview, 2008
- 319. Willie Ferguson Papers
- 113. I.G. Greer Papers
- 137. Jack Guy Papers
- 395. Chuck Hemrick Papers, 1987 - 1993, n.d.
- 164. Lulu Belle and Scotty Wiseman Collection
- 293. Many a Man's Been Murdered by the Rail Road
- 204. Barbara McDermit Papers
- 367. Bobby McMillon Collection
- 247. "Mother Memories" Sheet Music
- 273. Ernest "Pop" Stoneman Collection of Papers
- 208. Virgil Sturgil Papers
- 202. Summers County, WV, Music Project
- 252. John B. Vaughan Collection of Papers
- 110. James R. York Family Folksong Collection
- 381. Dr. Carrol Waymon Interview
- 249. Inez Wieczorek Scrapbook
- 389. Wilkes Central Marching Band Collection of Papers, ca. 1985
- 102. Cratis D. Williams Papers
Pathfinders
- African-American Music and Musicians in Appalachia
- Appalachian Musical Instruments and Their Makers
- Bessie Smith: Appalachian Classic Blues Singer
- Carter Family: Always a Song
- The Fiddle: From Europe to the American South
- Hymnals and Hymnody in the Appalachian Collection
- "Music from the Lost Provinces": A Guide to Traditional Music in Ashe County, North Carolina, Grayson County, Virginia, and the Surrounding Area
- Music of Watauga County: A Guide to the Music and Musicians of Watauga County, North Carolina
- Northeast Mississippi Hill Country Blues Pathfinder
- Old-time to Bluegrass: The Emergence of a Fiddle Style
- Old-Timey Women Musicians in Appalachia --1860's to 1942
- Protest Songs of the Appalachian Coalfields
- Round Peak Style: Old Time Music from Surry County, North Carolina
- Singing Traditions of the Primitive and Regular Baptists in Appalachia
- Western North Carolina Ballad Collection
- Western North Carolina Murder Ballads: Tom Dula and Frankie Silver